Sharp eyes over at The Guru of 3D spotted some information in a recent press release from AMD that might have been unintentionally released; performance numbers and mention of a AMD Radeon RX 480M. These benchmarks are internal and so should be taken with a grain of salt but they do offer a glimpse at how the RX 470 will perform. The benchmarks were run on a system comprised of ab i7 5960X, 16GB memory and Radeon 16.20, showing better performance than a R9 270X on three games as well as Firestrike below. Follow the link for the results they gleaned from the footnotes.
"In the slide-deck that was released yesterday some benchmark numbers have been, well almost hidden. But they are there. I added them into two charts to check out.
Let me clearly state that the benchmarks have been performed by AMD so we cannot verify quality settings. The scores have been derived from the footnotes of the PDF"
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There was also this photo
There was also this photo posted that looks pretty real. It could also be a fake one.
http://i.imgur.com/RamNi51.jpg
Based on that picture 460 will be selling at 79 euros, 470 at 149 euros and 480 at 209 and 249 euros for the 4GB and 8GB versions.
We are talking about HUGE VFM and HUGE performance increases over the old cards. This will be the first time in years that a company gives value to the low-mid range market. Last good card in this market was probably the HD 7750.
Yes you are right, from amd
Yes you are right, from amd its 7750 that was proper low mid range card(<$80) done right. Sadly from nvidia it was the geforce 8600 that did do justice to lower mid range cards justice. Amd strategy of not going for Top end gpus might just pay off in recovering lost market share.
I never liked 8600GT/GTS.
I never liked 8600GT/GTS. Compared to the previous 7600GT, it was a very disappointing card that was just offering DX10 support and only small performance improvement. What was a pure gem from Nvidia, a card that I will never forget, was 9600GT. THAT was a TRUE VFM card.
Exactly…9600GT was a great
Exactly…9600GT was a great Price/Performance card at the time.
480 will be really good i you have a 7950/70 or below.
I might believe these numbers
I might believe these numbers if they were for RX 480 (though still too good to be true), but 470? No way. No way in hell.
470 is based on Polaris 10,
470 is based on Polaris 10, and it will probably cost only $50 less than 480, so it is only logical those two cards not to differ much in performance. Based on what we expect from RX480(about GTX 980 performance), look at 290 and 290X in the above chart. They are not much different.
AMD is replacing two bigger chips, Pitcairn and Tonga with Polaris 10 and keeps the 256bit data bus. So for AMD probably those two cards, RX470 and RX480, will offer better profit margins, while offering much better performance at the same time. If AMD wants to gain market share, you better believe those numbers. In any case, in 15 days we will know.
Wow AMD and GF must be
Wow AMD and GF must be cranking out the RX480s with the RX470 being the lower binned Polaris 10 based part to get more usable dies/yield per wafer. You never know with over-provisioning with CU’s on GPUs to achieve better yields, and AMD may be in a position with the Polaris 10 dies to maybe have an RX485, or something waiting after the dies/wafer production improves! They always engineer some extra resources into the GPUs designs to get those early new process node yields assured, that is until things become better as the GF/Licensed from Samsung 14nm process grows more mature! Look for clock speed improvments also as the 14nm GF/Samsung fab node process gets better with reducing any leakage/other issues also! Fab process nodes are a bit like wine, things get better with time.
I think they will wait to see
I think they will wait to see 1060 first from Nvidia, before deciding to come out with a 485. 1060 could be a good enough card at less than $300 that could make a 485 less attractive to consumers.
An APU on an MCM(Multi-chip
An APU on an MCM(Multi-chip module)! Probably a silicon interposer based MCM, look for some TB per second bandwidth between the Zen cores and the Fat Vega Die on this one! A whole lot of traces can be eched into a silicon interposer’s substrate, in addition to the traces to HBM2!
With a big fat Vega die on the MCM module wired up via a wide on MCM module fabric to connect up the CPU to the on MCM Vega GPU die, that leaves those 128 PCIe lanes open for lots of extras.
“Zen-based Opterons have up to 32 cores and 128 PCIe lanes”
http://techreport.com/news/30280/rumor-zen-based-opterons-have-up-to-32-cores-and-128-pcie-lanes
These cards are going to be
These cards are going to be so huge for people in my friend circles who have GTX 660’s, 750 Ti’s, HD 6850’s etc.
For $150 they can get a card that will require no aditional power and be as much as 3X better performing than the cards they own now.
I was really doubting AMDs strategy of targeting the low-end market first, but I think I understand now that they weren’t messing around.
I seriously would not doubt if the RX 480 was the new GTX 970 in terms of market share and value.
Evrything perfect, but
Evrything perfect, but time…AMD is allways late…i hope they will not be this time…